Feb 21, 2023 · In the summer of 1923, while serving as Commander, Submarine Division Three, Captain Ernest J. King proposed that the Navy create a warfare insignia device for qualified …

May 23, 1970 · Mare Island Naval Shipyard, 1854–1996 Mare Island Naval Shipyard in Vallejo, California, was the first Navy base on the West Coast. During World War II, it was to evolve …

SS -- submarine; or merchant steamship. SSA -- cargo submarine. SSB -- fleet ballistic missile submarine. SSBN -- fleet ballistic missile submarine (nuclear powered). SSC -- cruiser …

The submarine was taken over by the Germans, redesignated UIT-23, and commenced a return trip on 15 February 1944, only to be torpedoed and sunk by British submarine HMS Tally-Ho …

USS Swordfish (SS-193) was commissioned on 22 July 1939, and after shakedown and subsequent repairs, was underway to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, in early 1941. On 3 November, …

Pre-U.S. Entry Into WWII The first action between the U.S. and German navies occured on April 10, 1941, when USS Niblack (DD-424) neared the Icelandic coast to pick-up three boatloads …

Title List: Each Letter as a Separate List » U » US Navy Submarines Losses, Selected Accidents, and Selected Incidents of Damage Resulting from Enemy Action, Chronological

The Confederate submersible H. L. Hunley has the distinction of being the first submarine to sink an enemy warship in wartime. Although the boat and its crew were lost as a result of this …

The submarines paid heavily for their successes in World War II. A total of 52 submarines were lost, with 374 officers and 3,131 enlisted men. These personnel losses represented 16% of the …

John Philip Holland, the man who developed the first true submarine accepted by U.S. Navy (spending 57 of his 74 years working with submersibles), was born in Liscannor, County Clare, …